Nancy Mace

A transgender woman from the Upstate who threatened on social media to kill U.S. Rep. Nancy Mace was sentenced to 30 months of house arrest followed by five years of probation.

The judge also barred her from using social media.

Circuit Judge Lawton McIntosh imposed the state sentence July 21 on Roxie Wolfe, who is identified in court records as Samuel Theodore Cain.

Wolfe must now wear a GPS monitor, follow a curfew and undergo a psychological evaluation and comply with any treatment that is ordered, 13th Circuit Solicitor Cindy Crick told The Post and Courier.

Wolfe is also barred from possessing weapons or ammunition. A permanent restraining order prohibits Wolfe from contacting Mace or members of the congresswoman’s family.

Wolfe pleaded guilty to the charge of threatening a public official without a plea agreement or sentencing recommendation from prosecutors, Crick said.

“There are additionally some limitations on internet usage as well,” Crick said.

McIntosh imposed a five-year sentence but suspended it while Wolfe completes house arrest and probation. If Wolfe violate the terms, a judge could order the original sentence be served, Crick said.

Mace read a victim impact statement aloud at the sentencing hearing, according to her office, which later released the congresswoman’s comments to members of the press.

In it, Mace said the threat had prompted heightened security around her home and workplace and continued to disrupt her children’s schedules and the daily operations of her offices.

“I expect and accept strong political disagreement as a standard of public service and the First Amendment,” Mace said. “I do not accept statements that place my life, my family’s safety or my staff’s security at risk.”

Mace urged the judge to impose continued supervision and a protective order barring Wolfe from contacting her, her family or her staff in person, electronically or through other avenues.

The case stems from an April 26, 2025, social media post on X in which Wolfe, then 19, threatened to assassinate Mace with a gun, according to State Law Enforcement Division agents.

The post was published days after Mace, R-Charleston, had a contentious exchange with a transgender student following a speech at the University of South Carolina.

When the student asked Mace to apologize for using the word “tranny,” Mace asked whether the term was derogatory, repeated it three times and later posted a clip of the exchange on X, where it drew national attention.

SLED agents wrote in court documents that Wolfe had threatened to fatally shoot a public official, though they did not identify Mace by name. Mace later said she was the target of the post, which has since been deleted.

The sentencing took place the same day federal prosecutors announced an Indiana woman had been sentenced to more than two years in federal prison for threatening to kill Mace last year.

Mace, 48, is completing her third and final term in Congress, and has emerged as a top voice in the right's anti-transgender movement.

She declined to seek reelection and instead ran unsuccessfully for governor.